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Re: Adding Indoor Control Panel to Pentair System with MobileTouch

Not so fast Jason... IF your Mobi has a black antenna coming out of the top of it, it is an older version, and may require a firmware upgrade, along with the outdoor board (not the end of the world) to allow it to talk to the new indoor control panel.

But if no antenna, listen to Jason.
Other than that, your biggest challenge will be hiding the wire for the ICP.

Re: Adding Indoor Control Panel to Pentair System with MobileTouch

Thanks for the replies, I appreciate the info.
My biggest issue right now is that I don't have any type of control wire running from the house to the pool equipment.
In the future, I'd like to tie the pool into my home automation system (Control4), so I'll need the 4-conductor wire.
Since I'm going to have to run some conduit out to the pool equipment, is there anything else I should run (CAT6, etc.)?
Just trying to future-proof a little.

Re: Adding Indoor Control Panel to Pentair System with MobileTouch

Around ten years ago here in Silicon valley, when home automation started getting popular, that's the way everyone wanted to go. Tie all the other automatons into the main one. Since then it has kind of gone in the other direction. Between the difficulty of getting each manufacturer get their hardware to talk to one another (with the software), and the installers wanting about 1000.00 per visit to make it happen, people started migrating to the internet, and keeping their systems separate. It seems to be working, for now, that way.